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Forecasts

Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers ...

Pour une écologie du 99%

Everyone is green, from Biden to Bezos and the environmental crisis growing at a scarily rapid rate. To create an ecology for the 99%, we must discuss a taboo topic: the exit from capitalism. Why carbon ...

The Economics of Happiness

By (author) Mark Anielski
Foreword by Herman Daly
Categories: Environmental economics

We all know that money can’t buy you love…or happiness, but we have been living our lives as though the accumulation of wealth is the key to our dreams. Why, in spite of increasing economic prosperity ...

Globalization and Well-Being

Researchers and policy-makers are looking at public policies to assess their economic and social impacts on individuals, families, communities, and nations. This book applies this new research on social ...

Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet

By (author) Anders Hayden
Categories: Environmental economics

Anders Hayden explores how the reduction of work time can play an integral role in an alternative ecological vision. Reduced work time will help sustain the environment, and ensure increased employment, ...

Families in Transition

Gossage uses a family-reconstitution method, drawing on local parish registers and manuscript-census schedules, to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in this context of social ...